Brit Sweep: February 15, 2015...

It's time to check out the songs making their debut on the just-released official singles chart in the United Kingdom this week, as Ellie Goulding spends a second week at #1 with "Love Me Like You Do"...

Drum and bass producer DJ Fresh claims the top debut of the week at #4 with "Gravity" (my "Brit Pick of the Week") featuring vocals from Ella Eyre. It becomes his seventh top ten hit; he had back-to-back #1's with "Louder" and "Hot Right Now"...

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Chris Brown and rapper Tyga land at #6 with "Ayo". It's Brown's 13th trip to the top ten in the UK - he went to #1 in this country in 2012 with "Turn Up The Music"...

British pop singer/songwriter Charli XCX enters at #8 with "Doing It" featuring Rita Ora. It's her fourth top-10 appearance; she topped the list as a featured artist on Icona Pop's "I Love It"  in 2012...

American R&B singer Ne-Yo comes in at #14 with "Coming With You". It's his first top-40 hit from his Non-Fiction album. He's had five British #1 hits, most recently with "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)" in 2012...

Dutch electro-house producer Bakermat follows up his #15 hit "Vandaag" with "Teach Me" at #22...


BAKERMAT - Teach me (DIR CUT) from Remy Cayuela on Vimeo.


Imagine Dragons are back at #27 with "I Bet My Life", their sixth British top-40 hit. The successful modern rock band from Las Vegas has yet to make the top-10 in this country, peaking at #12 with "Radioactive"...

Florence & The Machine pop in at #57 with their brand new single "What Kind Of Man". It's the first single from their upcoming third album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful...(NSFW)

A second track from Chris Brown and Tyga, "Bitches and Marijuana" with Schoolboy Q, pipes in at #60...

Taylor Swift moves in at #65 with "Style", the third single from her 1989 pop foray...

While Canadian alt-hip-hop artist The Weeknd's hit from 50 Shades Of Grey, "Earned It", jumps into the top-10 in the UK, his otehr contribution to the soundtrack, "Where You Belong", is in at #84...

The final new entry of the week at #86 is British indie-folk singer/songwriter George Ezra with "Cassy O'". It's the fourth hit from his Wanted On Voyage album; he took "Budapest" to #3 in the UK...

Cheers!